1808. ] 
opportunity of embarking privately for 
Europe. Villains of this description 
must naturally excite the resentment of 
their creditors, and no punishment in 
their power to inflict can be too severe; 
but it is unjust to class misfortune with 
ruilt, and to assimilaté the distress of a 
feeling and upright mind with the un- 
bloshing triumph of successful villainy; 
hence the expediency, if not strong ne- 
cessity of extending the bankrupt laws 
to Tndia:—by this measure the fairdealer 
would be protected, and the fraudulent 
punished. 
When the tide served, I quitted Chin- 
surah and arrived the same evening at 
Culna, a considerable village on the 
south bank of the river. Wien the ser- 
vants’. boat came up, the khansamaun® 
informed me that the cook had deserted 
at Chinsarah, bat had not been missed 
until the usual hour of commencing his 
culinary preparations. ‘The loss of my. 
dinner would have been a more serious 
grievance to me than the two monffis wa- 
ges whice I had advanced the runaway; 
but my apprehensions on this score-were 
relieved by the khansemaun informing 
me that one of his acquaintance, whom 
I before mentioned to have embarked 
with him, had prepared my dinner, and 
would be glad to serve me as a cook if I 
approved his performance. This propo- 
sal had the appearance of a previous ar- 
rangement, and exc'ted my suspicion 
that some undérhand work had been ecar- 
ried on to induce my cook to desert, but 
as any enquiry at this time would have 
Been fruitiess, | accepted the offer of the 
hew comer, determined however to keep 
a Watchful eye over hinxvand the khansu- 
maun. The tide accompanied me no 
further than this place, being a distance 
from the sea of about one hundred and 
twenty miles, eighty or ninety of which 
ossess sufficient depth of water fora 
line of battle ship, as Adiairal Watson 
proved in the seven years war, when 
with 2 squadron of men of war, he bat- 
tered and took Chaudernayore; but the 
East India. Company’s chartered ships 
are not allowed to proceed higher than 
~ Diamond Point, about thirty miles bebow 
Calcutta, on account of the dangerous 
navigation for deeply ladenvessels thence 
upwards, and also to prevent the trmults 
and riots which must ensue in the strects 
of the metropolis, from the crews of so 
many Indiamen. 
( To be continued. ) 
* Principal servant, literally a house- 
steward, ? 
Roman Gatholic College at Maynooth. 
483 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S the Royal Roman Catholic Col- 
lege of Maynooth has been the sub- 
ject of discussion in and out of parlia- 
ment, the following account will proba- 
bly be acceptable. to many of your rea- 
ders. ‘They may rely on its authenticity, 
as being chiefly taken from documents 
printed by order of the House of Com- 
inons, trem the work of Dr. Milner, who 
lately visited. the spot, and other genuine 
sources of information. 
Your’s, &e. 
1808. 
- Dublin, Fune 1, E.C. P, 
Account of the. Royal Colleze of St. 
Patrick, at Maynooth, near Dublin. 
The idea of a seminary tor the edu- | 
cation of Roman Cathelics in Ireland 
was first started uuder the short but 
popular administration of Lord Pitzwil- 
ham, in 1795. The act, however, for 
eudowing such an institution did’ not 
pass, till Earl Camben had © suc- 
ceeded to the vice-royalty. Before that 
period, the Catholic colleges on the Con- 
tinent were frequented by the Irish, both 
clergy and laity, for the purposes of 
education ;. and an = Irish - Catholic 
considered himself . more. at home, 
than when «broad. In every coun- 
try in Europe was. he caressed and 
encouraged, ‘Yo .every-country but his 
own, were his talents acceptable. Inthe 
career of science or of military honours, 
he met with no obstacle, but at home. 
There was he an alien indeed+ there wag 
he treated as an enemy to God, and ta 
his king. ‘This system, persevered in for 
hundreds of years in vain, ought at least 
to convince the world that those wha re- 
mained Catholics were sincerely SO ; add 
upright sincere men are never to be de- ‘ 
spised because they are mistaken. To 
think that they would be better chris- 
tians, or better subjects, by heing depri- 
ved of a regular_educatidn, Was too ab 
surd. ‘To assert, that in this uncivilized 
state they would be the less bigotted to 
their own principles, and’ more open to 
conviction or conversion to Protestantism, 
would be doing little honour to the Protes- 
tant religion, and tess credit to the pene- 
tration of Protestants. Experience had 
completely belied that assertion, if ever 
it had been made. So that there res 
mained nothing now to be done but ta 
give both clergy and laity as good au 
education as possibic, 
A. people so zealous,.and at the same 
tune 
